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Mac-Talla: Ar-a-mach ann am Brazil

Mac-Talla: Ar-a-mach ann am Brazil

Posted by Andrew on Monday 10 April 2017
As we’ve seen before, Mac-Talla was very eager to be a proper newspaper that diligently reported on happenings around the world, but they also had a number of difficulties doing this, as we can see in this extract. Not only was the telegraph infrastructure lacking, but Mac-Talla weren’t able to have such a thing as a foreign correspondent, like the big newspapers would have. They did their best to report foreign news in spite of that, though, even when they were also making excuses for the weakness of their reporting at the same time.
 
There was a bloody battle in Brazil the other day. A large number of the population of that country are rebelling against their rulers, and the battle was between them and the rulers’ supporters. There is no certain knowledge how things went for them, or which group won for it is not easy to find information because the telegraph in that country is not as good as it could be; but one report says that eight hundred people were killed, that neither side won but that the rebels are growing stronger every day. Things are very tumultuous in South America at the best of times.
 
You can also see here how they looked down their noses at South America – something that’s not exactly alien to people today either, although most of the time we don’t expect to see it stated so openly in an article in the paper!
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